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This manuscript is a commission issued by Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, addressed to Andrea Valerio, concerning Valerio's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the position of podestà (civil administrator) of Piran, a mainland community in Slovenia under Venetian control.

This manuscript is a Gradual, in Latin, fifteenth-century manuscript on parchment, written in Italy. Originally 188 folios, now 175 folios. Bound in original wooden boards and brown leather.

This Antiphonal was produced in Tuscany (likely Pisa) in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains material from the Temporale and Sanctorale for Septuagesima and the Pre-Lenten season. It contains three large historiated initials by an artist working in a style close to that of Francesco Traini. The miniatures depict King David playing the psaltery before God (f. 21), the Martyrdom of Saint Agnes (f. 146), and the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (f. 257).

This is a fifteenth-century collection of medical texts, De Artetica and De Calculosa Passione, written by Antonio Guainerio. It was written in Italy, and a note on the inside cover in a modern hand dates the manuscript to 1490. The texts are known to be by Guainero, although this manuscript attributes them to Pope Nicholas V.

Three maritime charts bound in contemporary parchment over paper board. The first chart shows the 26th to the 51st northern gradations, the coasts of England and Ireland south to Madeira and the Canary Islands, including the coasts of Spain and France. The second chart shows the whole of the Mediterranean, including the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The third chart shows the Mediterranean from the Meridian of Gallipoli (Italy) to Dakar, Africa, including part of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of Spain and Portugal.

This manuscript is a compilation of several anonymous writings on astronomy and astrology. It contains a number of tables, diagrams, and shorthand annotations. Often the compiler has made notes on a text rather than transcribe it, or has abbreviated what transcriptions he has made.

This late fifteenth-century manuscript, written on paper, contains a compilation of alchemical texts assembled and copied by Arnold of Brussels. For the most part, it was made in Naples between 1472 and 1490, as often noted at the end of works (for example, fols. 149r, 182v, 196v). A group of works in the middle of the volume appear to be in a different, possibly German, hand (fols. 79-101). As well as lists of philosophers, recipes, and key alchemical terms, it contains a number of texts and treatises of historical importance.

This manuscript is a partial leaf from a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript, probably written in Italy. The text on this leaf is from Reginold von Eichstätt's Historia of Saint Nicholas, a series of antiphons and responsories designed to be sung in the canonical Office on the feast of Saint Nicholas. Shortly after the composition of the Historia in the second half of the tenth century, lections were added, which were included in the source manuscript of this fragment. The responses, versicles, and antiphons are marked with neumes for chanting. This fragment was used in a binding.

This manuscript is a fragment of a leaf from a twelfth-century devotional text, previously used in a binding. Written in protogothic script, probably in Italy, it is perhaps from a life of Saint Nicholas of Myra, as the text contains references to agios Nicolai and urbs Varensis (Bari).

This is a thirteenth-century compendium of moral and didactic writings, with a colophon dating the manuscript to 1268. The book contains a varied collection of texts, ranging from Roman Seneca in the 1st century, through the North African apologist Fulgentius in the sixth, to the near-contemporary sermons and the recent Moralitates of the learned Englishman Holcot. The manuscript is a good example of a late medieval compendium, and contains a variety of authors known all across Europe.

Single leaf from a gradual, on parchment. The content is the celebration of All Saints Day. The music notation is neumes on four-line red staves. Initials are in the same brown ink as the rest of the text and neumes. The leaf has been trimmed and verso is damaged from being pasted into a binding.

Fragment of a single leaf, on parchment. The text appears to be from Pope Gregory I on the Book of Ezekiel. The top and the bottom of the leaf are gone, and the verso is heavily worn. Edges are folded from having been used in a binding.